photo by: Douglas County Sheriff's Office

Kurt Pisocki

An accused child molester who was scheduled for a plea hearing Wednesday in Douglas County District Court died by suicide Tuesday, according to a prosecutor, who told the court that the man’s death had deprived the victim and the community of justice.

The defendant, 58-year-old Kurt Pisocki, of Lawrence, was facing multiple off-grid felonies that could have meant life in prison if he were convicted of any single one. Those charges — all relating to a child under the age of 14 between July 2024 and January 2025 — included four counts of aggravated criminal sodomy and one count of aggravated indecent liberties with a child.

Pisocki was arrested on Feb. 5, 2025, at his residence in the 3300 block of Iowa Street, as the Journal-World reported. The court sealed the arrest affidavit in the case, and Pisocki waived his preliminary hearing — meaning little information about the case beyond the charging document ever became public.

Details about the plea agreement that presumably would have been the subject of Wednesday’s hearing will remain unknown.

Prosecutor Megan Ahsens, in announcing Pisocki’s death to the court, said that Pisocki, despite the gravity of the charges against him, had “generously” been released on an own-recognizance bond (of $250,000) and had “repaid” that gesture by taking his life and “depriving” his victim and the victim’s family of justice.

Judge Stacey Donovan said, apparently to the family sitting in the courtroom, “I’m sorry to hear that.”

Before Donovan entered the courtroom, Ahsens said to other counsel that Pisocki had left a note, but its contents were not shared in the courtroom.